After our post on “group fairness“, it’s time to discuss so-called “individual fairness“. Similarity The first idea is discussed in Dwork et al. (2012) our approach is centered around the notion of a task-specific similarity metric describing the extent to which pairs of individuals should be regarded as similar for the classification task at hand. The similarity metric expresses ground truth. When ground truth is unavailable, the metric may reflect the “best” available approximation as agreed upon by society. Following established tradition – Rawls … <a …